Contraband

Synopsis: Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married, has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay Briggs but then he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Baltasar Kormákur
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2012
109 min
$66,489,425
Website
638 Views


(HELICOPTER APPROACHING)

MALE DISPATCHER:

We have India 114,

Flight 104 is

waiting for your go.

That's it, right there.

There's our guy.

Begin your final

approach to the target.

PILOT ON RADIO:

Flight 104, copy that.

ANDY:
Sh*t!

Walter, wake up. Customs.

What? Who?

We need the f***ing bag.

Where the f*** is the key?

CBP OFFICER:

Tighten that line.

Now secure the other side.

Easy, easy up.

Okay, okay.

Hurry up. Come on,

put it in the bag.

Come on!

CBP OFFICER:
Pull this up.

Come on, come on. Let's go!

WALTER:
Go, Andy.

CBP OFFICER:
Stop!

Federal officer! Don't move!

(DOG BARKING)

Excuse me. Excuse me,

y'all. Can I have

everybody's attention?

I want to do a quick toast

to the bride and groom,

Danny and Shelly.

Congratulations.

(ALL CHEERING)

I can't believe it, man.

I'm f***ing married, Chris.

Danny, I know.

I was standing

right there with you.

Look, what about

this f***ing guy?

He's my best friend,

best man at my wedding.

He doesn't even remember

that this is where

my reception was.

Thank God he's sober.

You don't remember?

I remember throwing up

on Kate's shoes.

Yeah, I remember, too.

I apologized for that.

(PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC)

Everybody,

do it like this.

(VOCALIZING)

TOMMY:
I mean, you were

like the Lennon and

McCartney of smuggling.

How do you smuggle

a f***ing Ferrari?

Where do you hide it?

CHRIS:
We didn't.

We let customs

seize it in port.

Give me your phone.

SEBASTIAN:

You take the guts out.

The transmission,

the wiring system.

Take all that sh*t out,

hide it inside

other containers.

So, when customs

auctions off the car,

he gets himself

a Ferrari

for next to nothing.

He just bought

the empty shell?

Yes, he got the empty

shell at the auction.

And then we...

Sell him the missing parts.

...sold him back the guts.

And he's got himself

a new Ferrari

for less than

you paid for that

piece-of-sh*t Honda.

It's a nice Honda.

Yeah, that's

why you live

in it, right?

Because it's a

nice f***ing Honda.

Can I dance

with my wife?

Hey, what's up, buddy?

Can I get another one

of these when you

get a chance?

Hey, Chris.

Church, hey.

How are you doing, man?

Long time, no see.

Where you been?

Well, I'm living

out in Algiers now.

The f*** are you

doing out there?

It's nice,

I like it out there.

It's good for the family.

A guy like you

don't belong

in Algiers, Chris.

What are you

doing for work?

I started my own business,

setting up alarm systems.

Fill that up, will you?

Your old man

getting jailed

freak you out? Huh?

I guess.

That, and having

a wife and two little

boys, you know?

Yeah.

You've got to stick to

what you're good at,

though, Chris.

Listen, I offered

to take care of that

ship captain for your dad.

He said no.

Anyway, Chris,

if you're ever thinking

of getting back in,

let me know, okay?

Yeah?

Yeah.

Good.

I don't even know

why we're doing this

in the first place.

Just trust me, okay?

It will be cool.

If we try to run,

it will make it worse.

(SHIP HORN BLOWING)

Where are these guys?

Here we go,

here we go.

Be cool, now.

(WHISPERS) Here we go,

here we go.

ANDY:
Hey, man.

Customs boarded us,

we had to dump the package.

You did?

We had no choice.

Right?

Nothing we could do, man.

That's it.

What did I say?

I told you it was cool.

WALTER:
Come on, man,

let's get the f***

out of here.

(BOTH SCREAMING)

(PLAYING SLOW MUSIC)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Hello?

It's my brother.

What happened?

Is he okay?

No. We've got to go now.

What?

(SIREN WAILING)

CHRIS:
Walter

is in surgery.

What the f***

happened, Andy?

It was an accident.

You know what?

You're a shitty liar,

so don't even f***ing try.

Look at me when

I'm talking to you.

I was running something.

We got boarded,

and I dumped it.

You dumped what?

The coke.

KATE:
Oh, f***.

ANDY:
It was

over 10 pounds.

For who?

For Tim Briggs

and those guys.

They're going to kill me.

Andy, they're not

going to kill you.

ANDY:
It was a lot of stuff.

I'm sorry.

You should be

f***ing sorry.

Is he all right?

No, the little fuckhead

was running something

and he dumped it.

Now he owes.

Who? Who does he owe?

Tim Briggs.

Ask around,

see what you can

find out, all right?

How is Kate?

Not good.

CHRIS:
I can't believe

he did that.

When I quit,

I told him to stay

away from these guys.

Please, if you had

anything to do with this,

just tell me right now.

I just told you.

Okay.

He's my little brother.

I know. I'm going to

take care of it.

I got you.

KATE:
I'll call you

in the morning.

JEANIE:
Okay, no problem.

Good night.

CHRIS:
So you said

King Security

put the system in?

That's right.

A lot of good it did.

It's a decent system,

but your locks are a joke.

Anybody who knows

the response time

is going to be able

to get in and out.

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

Can you excuse me

for one second, sir?

Yes.

What's going on?

SEBASTIAN:
It's about Briggs,

Kyle's brother.

Yeah, and?

I don't know, hold on.

Guys! Guys!

How are we doing today?

Is my office still going

to be done last week?

You having a nice morning?

(WORKERS AGREEING)

Good!

Briggs got out of

prison two months ago.

He hangs out

at the Old Point Bar.

I'll pop over there

after I'm done work and

see if I can talk to him.

Sorry about that, sir.

The cameras are

nice and small,

they'll fit right up

there in the corner.

(FUNKY MUSIC PLAYING)

Oh, sh*t! (LAUGHS)

Chris Farraday, back from

the dead, man! Yeah!

Good to see you, man.

Oh, sh*t. This man was

a world-class smuggler here.

You were f***ing

Houdini, man.

Yeah, he used to

run with my brother,

God rest his miserable soul.

Too bad your skill

didn't rub off

on your shithead

brother-in-law.

No, I know,

he's a f***-up.

Mmm.

But he's my wife's

little brother.

I was hoping you

understand it's family,

maybe we could

work something out.

Well, I don't know.

What do you want to work out?

You want to work out

something with me?

I can figure out

a way to pay you back

the buy money.

No, that's worth

Oh, come on, man.

No, come on, man.

You're going to try to

charge me full freight

for a bad run?

Customs boards the boat,

you dump that sh*t.

You know how it goes.

You know how many passes

I gave your brother

in his day?

Yeah, I hated my brother.

What do you want to do,

a payment plan?

What, do I look like

a bank to you?

No, I was just hoping

you could be

f***ing reasonable, here.

Hey! This ain't your

world anymore, man!

You're a tourist,

you can't trade on

status you don't have.

I got bills to pay.

You know, when people

f*** that up, that's

their f***ing problem.

You think that's funny?

You got bills?

I like your outfit.

I liked your brother.

MAN:
We're here today,

that's the important thing.

So, you know, learning to

let go and let God

is what's been pulling me

through all of this.

You're going to have to

talk me down before

I f***ing kill Briggs.

Probably be better off.

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Aaron Guzikowski is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 2013 film Prisoners and creating the 2014 television series The Red Road. more…

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